What are "screencasts?"
podcasts = serialized audio recordings of events, readings, and interviews and publishing them for subscribers to listen to on demand. This radically changes in how we can reach and help each other, a change that puts the listener in charge of when, where, and how she learns. vodcasts (videocasts) = combine sound and visuals for on-demand playback on computers and portable players. screencasts = special vodcasts that show only the computer screen of the person demoing.
Screencast types
- Narrated (hardest and largest)
- Dropbox: product demo http://www.getdropbox.com/ (voice)
- Wrike: e-mail demo http://www.wrike.com/demo-email.html (automated voice?)
- Captioned
- Skype: video call http://winktutor.pbwiki.com/f/skype+video+call.htm (no voice, user-driven)
- Skype: application sharing http://winktutor.pbwiki.com/f/winktestskypeunyte.htm (automated voice reads captions)
- Neither (easiest)
- Wrike: drag-and-drop dependencies (http://www.wrike.com/video/dependencies.html)